How to trigger multiple programs at same time?

[deleted_user]

Would like to know if its possible to trigger multiple sas scripts at the same time with out using rsubmit?

if so how can we do it?

Thanks,
activa

[twocanbazza]

have a look at
x cmd with nowait.

Cheers

Barry

[SASKiwi]

First you need to establish multiple SAS server sessions, then do asynchronous RSUBMITs using WAIT=NO:

signon session1;

signon session2;

rsubmit session1 wait=no;
sas code here....
endrsubmit;

rsubmit session2 wait=no;
sas code here....
endrsubmit;

If you then want your parent session to wait for both session1 and session2 to finish then use:

waitfor _all_ session1 session2;

[ChrisNZ]

I too read " with out using rsubmit" as "with using rsubmit" at first glance... 🙂

[SASKiwi]

Maybe I should read more carefully! BTW the RSUBMIT approach is so much more flexible and easier to manage I would only use alternatives if I didn't have SAS/CONNECT.

[ieva]

you can try submitting also some programs in EG, others in batch mode

[Peter_C]

how about a scheduler?

What makes the decision to launch those SAS processes?
A long time ago (forget galaxy ...) I wrote a routine that would launch SAS programs based on a trigger = "that a file exists".

My routine was a SAS task that watched and tested for the trigger file with fileexist( 'trigger file name') which is FALSE (0) until that file exists. Once TRUE, it used the X-statement to launch the SAS programs because they were to run independantly. Another trigger was needed to stop the "watching" task. That watcher process could have been set up as a windows service.

I think a proper scheduler should be able to do that in a much more supportable way 😉

peterC